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Poverty Trauma and Taliban’s Misogyny: Forced, Underage Marriages Increased in Afghanistan

8th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Hasht-e-Sobh has found that the deprivation of women has increased family violence, selling and making the girls get forcibly married while being underage in Afghan society. In the meantime, old men and some of the Taliban authorities are trying to abuse the destitution of families and get married to their virgin, underage daughters. Click

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Posted in Afghan Women, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Domestic Violence, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists, Taliban war on women |
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Afghans Increasingly Marrying Off Young Daughters To Avoid Forced Unions With Taliban

1st December, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 1, 2022 In the 15 months since the Taliban took power, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents’ belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists |
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Taliban’s Governor for Maidan Wardak Entertains Multiple Marriages

10th November, 2022 · admin

8am: Local sources from Maidan Wardak province report the third marriage of Mawlawi Hafiz Mohammad Amin Omari, the Taliban’s governor for this province, with a young girl. According to sources, yesterday, November 9,, this wedding ceremony was held in Kabul. According to local sources, this Taliban official married a young girl as his third wife

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Corruption, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Life under Taliban rule, polygamy, Taliban Rapists, Wardak |
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Sold off: the Trafficked Children of Afghanistan

10th August, 2022 · admin

DW: Poverty has run rampant in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So much so that an ever-increasing number of Afghan parents are being forced into trafficking their own children. Be it to childless couples, as brides or even as fighters for radical Islamic groups. Most of the affected children come from internally displaced families: forced to flee

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Posted in Afghan Children, Economic News, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, child soldiers, Displaced, human trafficking, Life under Taliban rule |
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Afghanistan Poverty Bears More Child Brides

4th May, 2022 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News May 4, 2022 For several months Pashtana kept rejecting marriage proposals made for her 14-year-old daughter, Zarghona, until she had to make a final decision. “I had to choose between the survival of my four little children and giving Zarghona to marriage,” Pashtana told VOA over the phone from the southern

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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Through child marriage or paid adoption, Afghan girls bear brunt of crisis

14th April, 2022 · admin

Washington Post: Child marriage has long been prevalent in many Afghan communities. But the Taliban takeover, the subsequent plunge of the economy and banking system, and other stresses have “exacerbated the problem,” Williams said. The age of girls sold into marriage is dropping, a trend that could persist as long as the Taliban prevents girls

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Society, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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The rescue of Parwana: 9-year-old child bride is taken to safety in Afghanistan

3rd December, 2021 · admin

 CNN: Last month, CNN reported that Parwana and several other underage girls were being sold by their fathers so other members of their families could eat. At the time, Parwana’s father Abdul Malik said she cried day and night before, begging him not to sell her, saying she wanted to go to school and

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News | Tags: child marriage |
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Girls increasingly at risk of child marriage in Afghanistan

13th November, 2021 · admin

Ariana: UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said this week she is “deeply concerned by reports that child marriage in Afghanistan is on the rise”. In a statement issued Saturday, Fore said: “We have received credible reports of families offering daughters as young as 20 days old up for future marriage in return for a dowry.

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Society | Tags: child marriage, Misogyny |
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Boys With Brides: Afghanistan’s Untold Dilemma Of Underage Marriages

12th August, 2019 · admin · 3 Comments

By Ron Synovitz & Freshta Jalalzai Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 12, 2019 KABUL — Mohammad Wali was just 12 years old when his widowed mother began arranging his marriage to a 24-year-old woman from their village in Ghazni Province. “I don’t want to be married,” the young Afghan boy is said to have pleaded

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Posted in Afghan Children, Economic News, Human Rights | Tags: Boy Grooms, child marriage |
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The Worth of a Girl

29th July, 2019 · admin

VOA News: What does a child bride bring to a marriage — a dowry, social status, domestic labor, business connections? What is her value to two families, the one she leaves and the one she joins? And what is the cost to the girl? Early marriage doesn’t happen in only one region or in one religion. 

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women | Tags: child marriage, Force Marriage |
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